Google Drive Overview

Google Drive serves as a cloud-based storage solution, facilitating users in saving and retrieving files via the internet. It offers a secure method for storing files, allowing users to open or edit them from any device. When utilizing Google apps, files are accessible through a web browser or mobile app, while other file types within the Drive folder open in their respective applications, such as Adobe Reader for PDF files.

Each Google Drive user is granted 15 gigabytes of free storage, distributed across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. This service enables users to store diverse files, including personal media like photos, videos, and music, accessible from any internet-connected computer or mobile device with a web browser. Users can effortlessly store files of any format by dragging and dropping them from their computer into Google Drive.

Introduced by Google, Drive has transformed team collaboration, file sharing, and overall development processes in various companies, irrespective of their industry. Since all data is stored online, users can retrieve their documents from any computer, smartphone, tablet, or other devices with an internet connection.
Google Drive Overview

Primary storage

Modern computers employ a hierarchy of storage devices which may be broadly divide into two categories: ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ systems. The CPU is the heart of the computer. It normally contains an arithmetic/logic unit, control unit and primary storage. Primary storage refers to systems from which the processor is able to directly read instructions and data, and to which it is able to directly return the results of it compilation.

Primary storage or main memory is used to hold piece of programs, instructions and data that the computer is currently processing. However, the primary storage can hold information only while the computer system is on. Both main memory (RAM) and cache memory represents forms of primary storage device.

Since the mid-1980s, the primary storage device used by computers has been the hard disk drive. The limitation of primary storage is costly and volatile in nature – where the data are lost when the electricity is interrupted or computer is switched off. Another limitation of primary storage is that the storage requirements for programs and data on which it operate exceeds the capacity of a primary storage in all computer systems.
Primary storage